The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-16
AN LAWFUL" CONVERSATION.

The Careless Habit of MisusinS Adhesive:
How the Common Fault May be Cor
rected.
"Well, here / am at last. I've been
an awful time coming, though. Every
time | was just ready to get started
there was something else to do, and
after l was half way down the street
Gertie wanted to know where her slate
was. Children are horrid nuisance
sometimes" and Bella Townsend fam
ned herself Theoretically with her broad
straw hat, as she rested after her long
walk
you look most tired to death, ''saic
Fannie, alphabetically, as she looked
at her friends heated face. "Isn't il
elegant out this morning, though?
We've had such windy weather it's
just splendid to have a day like this. ~
'Indeed it isl agreed Bella. %
was awfully hot before started, or
wouldn't have minded the sun so much
I was baking cake, and the kitchen
was so hot was most melted before
got out of it."
IBID your cake turn out all right?''
asked Fannie.
"Oh, yes; it's just lovely. Imade 8
layer cake and put cocoanut over it
and it's awfully stylish looking.
hope Eta Grants won't take the shine
off it tonight at the sociable."
II don't believe it WILL" returned
Fannie, consolingly. "Did you notice
what sweet bonnet she had on yes
terday? 1t was too cute for any thing
in front. suppose her aunt brought
it to her, for l know she didn't get i
made here"
Her wrap was just magnificent
too" returned Bella. cts so plain
too. L know the material couldn'
have cost much, and the trimmings are
cheap, but suppose it's because it fit:
her that it looks so WE'LL"
"She's awfully homely when she
isn't fixed up any, but she did look nice
yesterday" said Fannie. "Her mother
is horrid looking. She never has hi
of style, so it's no wonder Eta hasn't
got much. She's trying to make up t.
the new minister, l believe"
ats no use for her to try" sale
Bella, scornfully, she wouldn't look al
her Isn't he lovely, thought"
HE is so, and he breaches awfully
pretty sermons. Did you see the sun.
set last night?''
mo, didn't notice it. What abou
it?n
"Oh, it was just lovely; all brigh
and red. May Harmon said it remind
ed her of Switzerland.
81 didn't know she was back already
Did she have nice time?"
''Just elegant, she says. The scenery
was awfully lovely, and she had Crane
fun all the time she was gone"
at will be horribly dull to settle
down at home again after all her trav.
els"
Eyes, it will be just terrible for her
You just ought to see the dresses She
brought home. They're splendid, ant
then she has lovely bonnets to go with
each of them"
at must be elegant to have so much
money, wish had some of it."
But you wouldn't want your grand
father to die to get it?''
''No, of course not. BY the way
didn't the minister make a real cute
address at little Lottie Miller's funera
the other day?"
"Why, Bella Townsend! I neve
heard such an awful thing in all m.
life! To think of calling funeral ad
dress cute!"
''Oh, well, I didn't mean just that
You know what l meant. 1t wa
pretty, and so appropriate; l didn'
mean to call it cute, but you know
that's my great word"
at did sound too funny for anything
though. Have some caramels? They'r,
lovely and fresh. Sometimes Dana ha
awfully stale ones"
"I'll take some to eat on the way
for must be going now. I've got
fearful walk before me, up to the store
and then all the way back home. II
be most dead by the time get there
NOOu-pJc'
Goodbye"
An overdrawn conversation, do yo,
say? Not at all. 1t is real CONVEX
sation between two young girls VIII
held enviable places in the graduating
class of a seminary, and who are per
fectly conversant with the meanin,
and proper application of all the adjec
tivcs they use, or misuse, so freely O
course they know better, but thei
habit of misapplying the adjective
they use comes from carelessness.
It's common fault even with well
educated people, to fall into the way G
using words in ordinary conversatio
that are not at all applicable in tn